2022 Best Value Automotive Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Automotive Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,170 people earned their degree in automotive engineering technology/technician, making the major the 451st most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 202 automotive engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 automotive engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent automotive engineering technology/technician programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the automotive engineering technology/technician program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Automotive Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Automotive Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Automotive Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Automotive Engineering Technology in the Far Western US Region

#1

Art Center College of Design

Pasadena, California

#1 in overall quality

$49,090 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Art Center College of Design. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Automotive Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Pasadena, California, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified masters’s automotive engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

Art Center College of Design did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Automotive Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Art Center College of Design are $49,090.

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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